Everyone will have surely noticed the prevalence of simple gradients all
over sites these days, it seems that a more sensible way of creating
graduated backgrounds would be via css. This would be quicker, easier
and scale better than raster graphics.
If could work such as (to produce a black to white effect)
background-style:gradient;
background-color:#000 #FFF;
or such as this for a rainbow gradient.
background-color:#F00 #FF0 #0F0 #0FF #00F #F0F;
radial gradients could also be rendered with
background-style:radial-gradient;
Maybe background position could be used to change the center point.
I don't think any more control over the gradients appearance would be
necessary.
Cheers,
Steve.